climate change

Global Warming Solutions

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000

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Listening For The Elusive Sound Of Ice Chimes

Amanda Loder — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:15:00 +0000

This year, the Dartmouth College campus has become temporary home for a mixed-media menagerie called Ice Chimes. And the 20-foot tall pagoda-like structure outside the Life Sciences building gets a lot of curious stares from students.

Ice Chimes is supposed to be interactive. But it isn’t exactly intuitive.

Climate Change And Rivers

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000

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The Slopes Are Melting!

Virginia Prescott — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:34:41 +0000

David Brooks, writer for the Nashua Telegraph, walks us through current and future threats that global warming poses to the ski industry.

UNH To Lead Study Of Climate Change's Impact On Roads And Bridges

Sam Evans-Brown — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:24:20 +0000

The National Science Foundation has given The University of New Hampshire $750,000 to coordinate the study of the impacts of Climate Change on roads and bridges.

The grant money will establish a network of Northeast climate scientists and civil engineers led by UNH researchers.

State Aid for Water Infrastructure Falls; Extreme Rain Events Rise

Sam Evans-Brown — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:25:26 +0000

New Hampshire towns looking to improve their environmental infrastructure – think drinking, storm-water, and wastewater projects – can go to the State to get some help paying for those projects. But since 2008 the State hasn’t been able to fund its part of the deal, and as the weather gets wilder, that could mean trouble down the road.

In 2008, the small town of Jaffrey completed construction of a brand-new wastewater treatment plant, says selectman Don MacIssac.

Manipulating Climate Change

Virginia Prescott — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:33:07 +0000

Two Harvard professors are developing a proposal for a first-of-its-kind field experiment in geo-engineering.

Green People

Virginia Prescott — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:40:03 +0000

How engineering human beings to be more energy efficient, could be the next step to combat global climate change.

Climate Scientist Admits To Lying, Leaking Documents

Christopher Joyce — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Peter Gleick is not just any scientist. He got his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley and won a MacArthur "genius" award. He is also an outspoken proponent of scientific evidence that humans are responsible for climate change.

And earlier this week, he confessed that he had lied to obtain internal documents from the Heartland Institute, a group that questions to what extent climate change is caused by humans.

Gleick's deception has shaken the science community.

Rise

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

A three-part, hour-long audio documentary for public radio from award winning producer Claire Schoen about climate change and coastal communities.

Global Warming and Water Shortages

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

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Dear EarthTalk: How is it that global warming could negatively impact water supplies in the U.S.?

-- Penny Wilcox, Austin, TX

A Carbon Tax With a Twist to Please GOP -- Maybe

Jon Greenberg — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:17:43 +0000

If there is a patron saint of modern Republican tax policy, it is economist Arthur Laffer. Laffer is best known for the Laffer Curve – a graph of the theory that under the right circumstances, a cut in tax rates produces higher tax revenues. The Laffer Curve was the keystone of so called Reaganomics.

Laffer was in Manchester today to present a very different idea – one that so far Republicans have been slow to embrace.